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- I've figured out something. Midnight City has the finest washing machines I've ever seen in Second Life so far — and they just may be the only. (If you know if more virtual Maytags I can tour, please drop me a digital telegram. I think Aimee Weber made these. Although, what disconcerted me was not seeing anyone else in the laundromat. Also, the lack of?familiar vibrating, whooshing sounds had me examine the machines closer. Unfortunately, I couldn't open one up to jump inside and wash myself (synth and all, I'm confident it would fit). The ones in the middle are the dryers, right?
- Mistress Pants! I like these because the red line is like a continuous tracer. If these pants could go BANG! with a fuse on the end tracin' them up like TNT, you'd have some serious breakdancing material on your hands. GOTO 08
- Oz Spade and Torley Torgeson, both tapping away, just about as "the wizard" is going to make his insightful comment about Sati at the end of The Matrix Revolutions. If you've seen it, you know what it is. Except to him, and now to me, it sounded more like "Neal" as in "Stephenson" as in "metaverse" than?any?other homonym.
?You know me, I'm NeoN, I'm the OneN!?=)?Speaking of "=)", Kex Godel would be there shortly. It just might be?her fave emoticon.
- Cape Destiny. I'm sitting, ready to play trivia on the boardwalk. I figure if I wasn't playing trivia, I'd plug up my virtual synth to some wireless power source and start jamming power ballads of the 80s. MagicJustSue Kojima hosted this, and she likes to dance.
- Shades of The Prisoner… ya think? Well, more accurately, that show had HUMANS as living chess pieces. I don't know how we could do that in SL with the massive lag at popular events — yet — but I'm counting on it someday. It will likely still be inconceivable, however, because of shortening attention spans. Speed chess might be a better bet, and of the non-three-dimensional persuasion too. Ever play 1D chess? It's flat. Ha ha ha.
- To quote the sage Tom Green: "I FOUND A TREAAASURE!!!" And a treasure indeed. I thoroughly enjoy the unexpected expected I come across in Second Life. Here I was, ready to explore Krittannia, when I find the owner of the joint, Kris Ritter, is chillin' out. She obliges me and shows me the wondrous things she's made, including — and I did not know this before — SL's very first dance machine, which Philip Linden apparently took with him to show off at E3. It serves a practical purpose too, Kris told me, mentioning how its master sync reduces lag. Well, fantashtic. Kris also does a great impersonation of an alien abducting a cow, neon green light and all. NEON!!
- I figured if I were going to do a dramatic, Matrix building-to-building jump, this would be a vantage point to do it from. Not pictured: Kenzington Fairlight, she of the yellow-green or yelgreen eyes, standing slyly behind me to my left. She is a mystery to me.
- Everyone in the pool! This is part of Lady Dawson's former palace… namely, the basement.?She no longer owns it and it looks awfully spacious, but it would be cool to hang out here and have breakdancing competitions. The marble, contrasted with urban street wear, strikes me as awesome. Can you imagine wearing lettuce around your ears and getting down in a toga to "Planet Rock"? Surely!?January Bauhaus and Xyni Platini are also in the scene: the former made a humorous comment about Big Ben (not Ali G), and the latter is amazing me with how much the animanga-thing has learned in the last few days. Some things we did in the basement: drown, fire arrows from bows, talk about Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure — which was most EXCELLENT!, and be fun.
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I went to bed at 5 AM with Kraftwerk's The Mix on continuous loop in the CD player, hoping it would keep my ears busy when I slept. I have repeatedly read that having too much silence if one has hyperacusis is actually a very bad (and not in an antonymistically?80s-Michael Jackon-style way)?thing. So, I try to keep ears busy, but not too loud. And yes, the Kraftwerkian robots did appear while I dozed… I woke up at one point, semi-conscious, and hearing something like a massive stutter edit cut through the "boing boom tschak" of the last track. It was, in fact, the CD skipping more than peanut butter. I stopped the CD and went back to sleep, and then woke up, and soon enough, wrote this.
I've got enhancements to my blog coming soon, thanks to the gracious folks at Blog City. Right now, I'm having some technical difficulties of my own, so hang on . . . .?anyhoo, I remember first signing up and going through the assortment of themes, trying to figure out which one I would go with. You now know the rest of that story. I switched "gutter" to the left-hand side because I notice it loads the main bulk of the context more efficiently (something about priority HTML, I dunno). Also, I apologize if your eyes go squinty as the solid hot pink glares in place before the rest of mah website appears.
Guess what I just?got? 2% MILK, A LOAF OF WHITE BREAD, AND MUFFINS! There are four varieties of muffin: poppyseed, chocolate, carrot, and the other one I can't quite figure out. Anyway I'm going to eat and then log back into SL.
This excites me so much, the simple things in life, be it First Life or Second Life!!!